Yes Bin Laden did fight with the Mujahedeen in the 80's. He didn't turn against the US until the Saudi Government chose to let us help save Kuwait from Iraq in the first gulf war. Bin Laden took offense at letting the infidel west into Saudi Arabia and lead the fight against Iraq. At that point he started targeting us. But in the 80's he was an ally against the common enemy the Soviet Union. (as was Saddam Hussain for that matter).
Bin Laden did not create or significantly fund the Muj, he joined them a few years into the fight and lent his money to support but mostly he was there as a foreign Muj fighter, and yes we trained him as well as many other Muj fighters.
If you are going to try to cite history to make an argument you should know what you are talking about.
Ever heard of the Minutemen? Mujahedeen, Free French resistance, I could go on. Militia is not a bunch of old paranoid grey beards wearing camo and running around in the woods ready to stand off the government.
A militia is armed members of the community that help to defend that community and their nation against invaders and tyranny. A disarmed people cannot provide a militia. In the language of the late 1700's well regulated meant functional or working. A disarmed people cannot be a functional or well regulated militia. Only an armed populace can form an effective well regulated (functional) militia.
Thus the 2nd amendment to ensure that when and if needed the minutemen could respond to defend. That has not changed.
False, the 100 email conversations, including 8 with TS info that Comey identified in his briefing all contained information that was classified at the time that it was put into the emails. Any that were classified after the fact are not relevant and no charges could be pressed.
It also included emails that she specifically and illegally ordered her aides to strip classification markings from. That's deliberate security compromise and is a more serious felony than negligent compromise.
No, negligent handling of classified information is a felony. not a slap on the wrist felony, but a go to pound you in the ass Prison felony. And that assumes it was purely accidental that classified information made it onto over 100 email conversations.
More likely it was intentional to move the information from the classified networks to her private (off the record) email server that was not classified but on the open internet. That is intentional mishandling of classified information. Another Felony. Neither requires the information to fall into the hands of our enemies, just putting the data into emails on her server was over 100 felony counts worth up to 5 years (negligent) or up to 10 years (intentional) in prison per count. (each email conversation would be a count. And I'm only counting the emails that contained classified information that was classified at the time it was put into the emails).
Had anyone not named Clinton tried that they and everyone that was aware of these emails would be facing charges and possibly serious prison time. Oh that's one more felony, failure to report mishandling of classified information. Up to 10 years per count.
Not a slap on the wrist at all. But rather serious crimes on a rather large scale.
And for the record, I spent 20 years in Army Counterintelligence investigating these very types of criminal acts.
I actually read the article. As part of the sales agreement for the 700MHZ spectrum purchase they agreed to sell their devices unlocked. I guess that agreement had a sunset or they are just choosing to ignore it now.
1. Easily and usually turned off. (Yes it was annoyingly excessive which is why it usually was quickly disabled.)
2. Fixed with SP1. (Learned long ago to never buy Windows before SP1 was released.)
I ran Vista for years on my primary home laptop, I didn't buy that machine until after SP1 came out, (I repeat, never buy Win before the first SP). Vista was no more or less stable than prior versions, Win 7 was more stable when it came out and I started using it at work, but not enough for me to invest in upgrading.
Nobody is saying software will no longer run on it. They are saying Their Shiny New Software will not be able to run on the Decade old OS because it lacks many key functions. But you will be free to continue using Office16 until 2026. Well beyond the EOL of Win 7.
Technology moves forward, At some point your company needs to join the flow. If you stick with MS products your hardware gets updated more frequently than once a decade, shouldn't your software?
And how many bots will it take to be able to deliver to everybody's availability? Delivery is most efficient if a vehicle can head out on a route and just deliver that route without waiting for someone to be home, or to come to the door. Such custom delivery times would require a separate delivery run for nearly every delivery to be made. Very inefficient and vastly increasing the traffic.
If I'm going to drive to the store, why bother ordering anyway? I just go to the store and buy what I need when I need it. If I'm ordering something, the idea is to save fuel by having a delivery company combine trips by each driver making a few hundred deliveries a day.
Picking up from the local store defeats the purpose of ordering online.
The Ford (Google) and Dodge(Amazon) brand pickup trucks can both carry cargo and pull trailers using standard 1 3/4 and 2 inch ball hitches . Their in dash infotainment centers can sync with any device over Bluetooth, and will play a wide variety of music from a broad selection of sources, radio, satellite and digital devices. Their engines and transmissions are different yet they are both able to do everything pickup truck owners expect such a vehicle to do.
Meanwhile the new Chevrolet (Apple) "Pick-Up" Truck, has a 100lb 1 square ft cargo limit to it's "bed", and can only pull Chevy branded Camper trailers using Chevy "Hitch" technology. All other trailers are unable to connect to the new 3 inch pivoting cube hitch Chevy has invented. Inside the Chevy DASH (by SONY) will only sync with Chevy branded devices and will only play Classic Country music stations. It has Chevy's own engine and transmission and does basically nothing expected of any vehicle called a pickup truck.
As most lawyers are the equivalent of cockroaches, that is not a guaranteed solution. This case will probably be getting hearings when Sol finally gets tired of it and goes Supernova to finally eliminate the problem.
It doesn't, and that isn't what happened here. Most of those FOB's have internet service and cell service. That is how the data is getting uploaded. When I was there almost a decade ago, cell service was 2g or and internet on larger FOBS was provided by Contractors from India on a subscription service. All were told that this internet was assumed to be monitored by the Chinese and others. By now I would assume the cell signal near the FOBS is at least 3g and possibly might even have some 4g available for a price most locals couldn't afford but US personnel (and the local drug lords) would find easily affordable.
Connecting their devices to the classified system (which is strictly forbidden and closely watched for by the IT team) to upload their data would actually keep the data secret as those networks are physically separate from the general unclassified network and the internet. Any data uploaded would have to go to a classified storage and tracking site. (Classified because of the network it's on, not necessarily because of the data contained on such a hypothetical site.)
A road map that any local who wishes already has. These bases are not secret, they are not hidden, they use local nationals employees for many general labor services, Further on average there are not massive numbers all at one spot on any base's running routes. There will be more runners at sunrise and sunset as it's cooler but not to dark to safely see, but they don't usually group together.
This is being blown out of proportion by people who don't understand what they are even talking about. Yes it is of some degree of concern, I would expect the devices to become restricted on smaller forward bases, but mostly this is not an issue. A local national working on base can generate the same information with his mark one eyeballs and he doesn't need a computer or internet access to do so.
Yep, a few years ago I bought just such a card for my wife and my kids loved it so much they drained the battery, On a whim I cut into the circuit board and found it had a basic hearing aid battery held in by a metal clip connector. I bought a 5 pack of batteries and went through three of the five batteries before the kids got tired enough of it to let us toss the now very ragged remains of the card.
Except Ford has run into one problem in initial virtual testing of the algorithms the cars will use. Namely that the cars seem to want to congregate around Donut shops, regardless of the quality of the "hiding places" they choose. No matter how they tweak the software inevitably within 30 minutes of departure from base every car is parked in front of a Donut shop.
When was the last time you saw a desk or laptop computer for sale that didn't have a built in speaker. (try maybe way back in 8086 days? Nope my families first PC was an 8086 and it had a built in speaker.) You are still going to get sound. And even if you have disabled the internal speaker or didn't hook it up on your custom built machine because you plan to use externals you still need sound.
You've never multi-tasked? Listened to music while working, only to have your tunes disrupted by some autoplay commercial or news report?
This! Just muting the sounds is nice, but it still streams the data downloading the entire video file. Autoplay is evil and needs to be Opt in only. I might want it on YouTube or a similar site. I don't want it on every single news site and blog out there.
And how much trouble is Your PM having forming a Majority government. Merkel is facing the same problem in Germany. We don't have that problem. We don't have to build coalition governments. Two parties (with many factions within) gives us greater stability.
And we aren't locked to two parties, we actually have many parties, but most of them are small fringe groups not statistically large enough to deserve seats. And we don't play the coalition game, so if a party wants control they have to get a majority of seats. But if the smaller parties can win a seat it's theirs. Bernie is an Independent in the Senate.
Additionally the dominant parties have changed, it hasn't happened in a while but it has happened, and could happen again. Whigs, Know-Nothings, National Democrats and others have held dominant positions yet they no longer exist. The key is that to be effective they have to win a majority or near enough to it to be able to block the occasional unwanted legislation. That requires a two way split. A simple plurality is not sufficient.
A Building heating system is just that, the Heating or HVAC system in every home, business, government and other building designed to keep the interior at temperatures comfortable for the human occupants. Except for purely electric systems (which aren't that common) they burn something, most burn NG, a few propane, fuel oil or wood. These all emit PM2.5 particulate emissions, some are better than others but they still each add a small amount. Add in all the vehicles, even with the clean modern exhaust systems and it adds up there as well. Google LA smog or Utah Inversion for examples. It's not industrial pollution (or wide spread coal burning which was definitely worse) alone that causes the pollution to build up in the air.
This is a significant problem in Utah every winter. http://www.ci.slc.ut.us/winter-inversions-what-are-they-and-what-we-can-all-do-help
Attach a scrubber to every car, truck, semi, train and plane, attach one to every home, and building heating system as well as every industrial plant and refinery? This is not just a dirty coal plant problem.
We have? Many areas struggle at various times of year to meet EPA 2.5 particle standards. If actually as effective as this claims the Wasatch front area of Utah, which is in a bowl that traps pollutants via inversions between storms every winter, would greatly benefit from this, as would the LA area with it's smog issues. We have cleaned up many of the pollution problems but 2.5 particulate pollution is still a very substantial problem.
And those surrounding states (or more specifically the power plants built in them to service the CA demand) need the power they produce to be purchased by CA or the plants shut down and people lose their jobs. It's not just a matter of oh let's sell it to someone else. Usually they can't just send the power elsewhere.
Utah has one Large power plant I'm familiar with that produces exclusively for the CA markets, the Intermountain Power Plant (IPP). The high voltage transmission lines from the plant run to CA and nowhere else. They were flat out told to convert it or else and the conversion is on schedule to be completed by 2025. The plant currently has two coal fired units, the plan over time is to eventually bring on two additional units, the third one was supposed to be running by now but that was halted when LA, (the planned destination for the power from the unit) voted to go coal free in 2012.
So yes CA the buyer is able to pressure the producers because more and more of their utilities are refusing to buy power produced by coal. When the plants are built and focused on supplying the CA markets, the Transmissions lines lead to the CA markets and other power plants already meet the needs of the state where they reside, then yes CA is able to dictate to the suppliers.
Utah gets no power from the IPP.
Meanwhile Utah's coal industry has been forced to go looking overseas for buyers of our very clean anthracite coal.
Because the coal plants in question produce power for CA. If CA stops buying the power the plants get shuttered as there isn't sufficient market for the plants to sell their power elsewhere. And that puts people out of jobs. Thus the pressure. Convert or close.
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Yes Bin Laden did fight with the Mujahedeen in the 80's. He didn't turn against the US until the Saudi Government chose to let us help save Kuwait from Iraq in the first gulf war. Bin Laden took offense at letting the infidel west into Saudi Arabia and lead the fight against Iraq. At that point he started targeting us. But in the 80's he was an ally against the common enemy the Soviet Union. (as was Saddam Hussain for that matter).
Bin Laden did not create or significantly fund the Muj, he joined them a few years into the fight and lent his money to support but mostly he was there as a foreign Muj fighter, and yes we trained him as well as many other Muj fighters.
If you are going to try to cite history to make an argument you should know what you are talking about.
Ever heard of the Minutemen? Mujahedeen, Free French resistance, I could go on. Militia is not a bunch of old paranoid grey beards wearing camo and running around in the woods ready to stand off the government.
A militia is armed members of the community that help to defend that community and their nation against invaders and tyranny. A disarmed people cannot provide a militia. In the language of the late 1700's well regulated meant functional or working. A disarmed people cannot be a functional or well regulated militia. Only an armed populace can form an effective well regulated (functional) militia.
Thus the 2nd amendment to ensure that when and if needed the minutemen could respond to defend. That has not changed.
He is 19 years old, he most certainly can vote.
False, the 100 email conversations, including 8 with TS info that Comey identified in his briefing all contained information that was classified at the time that it was put into the emails. Any that were classified after the fact are not relevant and no charges could be pressed.
It also included emails that she specifically and illegally ordered her aides to strip classification markings from. That's deliberate security compromise and is a more serious felony than negligent compromise.
No, negligent handling of classified information is a felony. not a slap on the wrist felony, but a go to pound you in the ass Prison felony. And that assumes it was purely accidental that classified information made it onto over 100 email conversations.
More likely it was intentional to move the information from the classified networks to her private (off the record) email server that was not classified but on the open internet. That is intentional mishandling of classified information. Another Felony. Neither requires the information to fall into the hands of our enemies, just putting the data into emails on her server was over 100 felony counts worth up to 5 years (negligent) or up to 10 years (intentional) in prison per count. (each email conversation would be a count. And I'm only counting the emails that contained classified information that was classified at the time it was put into the emails).
Had anyone not named Clinton tried that they and everyone that was aware of these emails would be facing charges and possibly serious prison time. Oh that's one more felony, failure to report mishandling of classified information. Up to 10 years per count.
Not a slap on the wrist at all. But rather serious crimes on a rather large scale.
And for the record, I spent 20 years in Army Counterintelligence investigating these very types of criminal acts.
I actually read the article. As part of the sales agreement for the 700MHZ spectrum purchase they agreed to sell their devices unlocked. I guess that agreement had a sunset or they are just choosing to ignore it now.
1. Easily and usually turned off. (Yes it was annoyingly excessive which is why it usually was quickly disabled.)
2. Fixed with SP1. (Learned long ago to never buy Windows before SP1 was released.)
I ran Vista for years on my primary home laptop, I didn't buy that machine until after SP1 came out, (I repeat, never buy Win before the first SP). Vista was no more or less stable than prior versions, Win 7 was more stable when it came out and I started using it at work, but not enough for me to invest in upgrading.
Nobody is saying software will no longer run on it. They are saying Their Shiny New Software will not be able to run on the Decade old OS because it lacks many key functions. But you will be free to continue using Office16 until 2026. Well beyond the EOL of Win 7.
Technology moves forward, At some point your company needs to join the flow. If you stick with MS products your hardware gets updated more frequently than once a decade, shouldn't your software?
So Twitter should just ask all accounts to indicate their real country of origin. Problem solved right? ;)
And how many bots will it take to be able to deliver to everybody's availability? Delivery is most efficient if a vehicle can head out on a route and just deliver that route without waiting for someone to be home, or to come to the door. Such custom delivery times would require a separate delivery run for nearly every delivery to be made. Very inefficient and vastly increasing the traffic.
If I'm going to drive to the store, why bother ordering anyway? I just go to the store and buy what I need when I need it. If I'm ordering something, the idea is to save fuel by having a delivery company combine trips by each driver making a few hundred deliveries a day.
Picking up from the local store defeats the purpose of ordering online.
The Ford (Google) and Dodge(Amazon) brand pickup trucks can both carry cargo and pull trailers using standard 1 3/4 and 2 inch ball hitches . Their in dash infotainment centers can sync with any device over Bluetooth, and will play a wide variety of music from a broad selection of sources, radio, satellite and digital devices. Their engines and transmissions are different yet they are both able to do everything pickup truck owners expect such a vehicle to do.
Meanwhile the new Chevrolet (Apple) "Pick-Up" Truck, has a 100lb 1 square ft cargo limit to it's "bed", and can only pull Chevy branded Camper trailers using Chevy "Hitch" technology. All other trailers are unable to connect to the new 3 inch pivoting cube hitch Chevy has invented. Inside the Chevy DASH (by SONY) will only sync with Chevy branded devices and will only play Classic Country music stations. It has Chevy's own engine and transmission and does basically nothing expected of any vehicle called a pickup truck.
As most lawyers are the equivalent of cockroaches, that is not a guaranteed solution. This case will probably be getting hearings when Sol finally gets tired of it and goes Supernova to finally eliminate the problem.
It doesn't, and that isn't what happened here. Most of those FOB's have internet service and cell service. That is how the data is getting uploaded. When I was there almost a decade ago, cell service was 2g or and internet on larger FOBS was provided by Contractors from India on a subscription service. All were told that this internet was assumed to be monitored by the Chinese and others. By now I would assume the cell signal near the FOBS is at least 3g and possibly might even have some 4g available for a price most locals couldn't afford but US personnel (and the local drug lords) would find easily affordable.
Connecting their devices to the classified system (which is strictly forbidden and closely watched for by the IT team) to upload their data would actually keep the data secret as those networks are physically separate from the general unclassified network and the internet. Any data uploaded would have to go to a classified storage and tracking site. (Classified because of the network it's on, not necessarily because of the data contained on such a hypothetical site.)
A road map that any local who wishes already has. These bases are not secret, they are not hidden, they use local nationals employees for many general labor services, Further on average there are not massive numbers all at one spot on any base's running routes. There will be more runners at sunrise and sunset as it's cooler but not to dark to safely see, but they don't usually group together.
This is being blown out of proportion by people who don't understand what they are even talking about. Yes it is of some degree of concern, I would expect the devices to become restricted on smaller forward bases, but mostly this is not an issue. A local national working on base can generate the same information with his mark one eyeballs and he doesn't need a computer or internet access to do so.
Yep, a few years ago I bought just such a card for my wife and my kids loved it so much they drained the battery, On a whim I cut into the circuit board and found it had a basic hearing aid battery held in by a metal clip connector. I bought a 5 pack of batteries and went through three of the five batteries before the kids got tired enough of it to let us toss the now very ragged remains of the card.
Except Ford has run into one problem in initial virtual testing of the algorithms the cars will use. Namely that the cars seem to want to congregate around Donut shops, regardless of the quality of the "hiding places" they choose. No matter how they tweak the software inevitably within 30 minutes of departure from base every car is parked in front of a Donut shop.
When was the last time you saw a desk or laptop computer for sale that didn't have a built in speaker. (try maybe way back in 8086 days? Nope my families first PC was an 8086 and it had a built in speaker.) You are still going to get sound. And even if you have disabled the internal speaker or didn't hook it up on your custom built machine because you plan to use externals you still need sound.
You've never multi-tasked? Listened to music while working, only to have your tunes disrupted by some autoplay commercial or news report?
This! Just muting the sounds is nice, but it still streams the data downloading the entire video file. Autoplay is evil and needs to be Opt in only. I might want it on YouTube or a similar site. I don't want it on every single news site and blog out there.
And how much trouble is Your PM having forming a Majority government. Merkel is facing the same problem in Germany. We don't have that problem. We don't have to build coalition governments. Two parties (with many factions within) gives us greater stability.
And we aren't locked to two parties, we actually have many parties, but most of them are small fringe groups not statistically large enough to deserve seats. And we don't play the coalition game, so if a party wants control they have to get a majority of seats. But if the smaller parties can win a seat it's theirs. Bernie is an Independent in the Senate.
Additionally the dominant parties have changed, it hasn't happened in a while but it has happened, and could happen again. Whigs, Know-Nothings, National Democrats and others have held dominant positions yet they no longer exist. The key is that to be effective they have to win a majority or near enough to it to be able to block the occasional unwanted legislation. That requires a two way split. A simple plurality is not sufficient.
A Building heating system is just that, the Heating or HVAC system in every home, business, government and other building designed to keep the interior at temperatures comfortable for the human occupants. Except for purely electric systems (which aren't that common) they burn something, most burn NG, a few propane, fuel oil or wood. These all emit PM2.5 particulate emissions, some are better than others but they still each add a small amount. Add in all the vehicles, even with the clean modern exhaust systems and it adds up there as well. Google LA smog or Utah Inversion for examples. It's not industrial pollution (or wide spread coal burning which was definitely worse) alone that causes the pollution to build up in the air.
This is a significant problem in Utah every winter. http://www.ci.slc.ut.us/winter-inversions-what-are-they-and-what-we-can-all-do-help
Attach a scrubber to every car, truck, semi, train and plane, attach one to every home, and building heating system as well as every industrial plant and refinery? This is not just a dirty coal plant problem.
We have? Many areas struggle at various times of year to meet EPA 2.5 particle standards. If actually as effective as this claims the Wasatch front area of Utah, which is in a bowl that traps pollutants via inversions between storms every winter, would greatly benefit from this, as would the LA area with it's smog issues. We have cleaned up many of the pollution problems but 2.5 particulate pollution is still a very substantial problem.
And those surrounding states (or more specifically the power plants built in them to service the CA demand) need the power they produce to be purchased by CA or the plants shut down and people lose their jobs. It's not just a matter of oh let's sell it to someone else. Usually they can't just send the power elsewhere.
Utah has one Large power plant I'm familiar with that produces exclusively for the CA markets, the Intermountain Power Plant (IPP). The high voltage transmission lines from the plant run to CA and nowhere else. They were flat out told to convert it or else and the conversion is on schedule to be completed by 2025. The plant currently has two coal fired units, the plan over time is to eventually bring on two additional units, the third one was supposed to be running by now but that was halted when LA, (the planned destination for the power from the unit) voted to go coal free in 2012.
So yes CA the buyer is able to pressure the producers because more and more of their utilities are refusing to buy power produced by coal. When the plants are built and focused on supplying the CA markets, the Transmissions lines lead to the CA markets and other power plants already meet the needs of the state where they reside, then yes CA is able to dictate to the suppliers.
Utah gets no power from the IPP.
Meanwhile Utah's coal industry has been forced to go looking overseas for buyers of our very clean anthracite coal.
Because the coal plants in question produce power for CA. If CA stops buying the power the plants get shuttered as there isn't sufficient market for the plants to sell their power elsewhere. And that puts people out of jobs. Thus the pressure. Convert or close.